[Teespring Guide] Part 2 - Designing Your Shirt (AffPlayBook Top Rated Complete Teespring Thread)

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Quote:In the first lesson of this guide,
you learned how to analyze the competition and research niches. This
guide will talk about designing your shirt. Special thanks to @maxpoweraff for helping with this!



What are my options?



You have a few options when it comes to designing your shirts.



1. Design it yourself using a program like Photoshop, Illustrator, or Gimp.

2. Design it yourself using the Teespring Designer.

3. Buy a premade design

4. Hire it out



If you're just starting out, give the Teespring designer a whirl. It's free, and you can definitely make shirts that sell using it.



If you're going to do it yourself, you should learn the basics of vector graphics.



What are Vector Graphics vs Raster?



Like digital photographs and Photoshop documents, raster graphics are
made up of thousands of tiny squares: pixels. They look great at their
original size, but they become grainy and “pixelated” if that size
changes. On a shirt the pixels can come out printed as rough edges.
Raster graphics are typically found in .JPGs, .PNGs, .GIFs, .PSDs, and
.TIFFs.



Vector graphics use points, lines, and curves instead of pixels,
allowing them to scale at any size. They will not lose quality when they
are enlarged or printed. What you see on your computer will resemble
exactly what will be printed on your shirt.



You can save your shirt design as a PNG because Teespring
will convert it to a vector graphic. Ideally though, you want to
create vector graphics to make the final product as true to your design
as possible.



What can I use to make vector graphics?



The industry standard is Adobe Illustrator. You can get it, along with Photoshop and other Adobe applications for $49/month through Creative Cloud.



You can also use Inkscape which is free.



If you want to convert a PNG (or other formats) to vector, you can use Vector Magic.



You can still make good shirt designs with raster graphics (PNG, etc.).
You can use Photoshop to do this (part of creative cloud). A few free
alternatives are:



GIMP



Paint.net



Sumo Paint



Where can I get graphics?



There are a number of great places to get graphics. Here are a few:



www.Allsilhouettes.com

www.Us.fotolia.com

www.Tshirt-factory.com

www.designious.com

http://arsenal.gomedia.us/product-ca...shirt-designs/

www.yougraph.com

www.rivalart.com

www.stockt-shirtdesigns.com

http://thenounproject.com/

http://www.freepik.com/



You could also Google search for 't-shirt vector designs' and find a lot that way.



What about fonts?



Fonts can totally change the look and feel of a shirt. Many successful
shirts are just basic fonts, or interesting font combinations. Here are
some places you can browse and download fonts:



http://www.dafont.com/

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/



Good font combinations are important for an attractive design. You can
see some winning font combinations by browsing through shirts like we
did in the first part of this guide. Here are a few more resources for
learning about font combinations:



http://ifontyou.com/

https://www.pinterest.com/explore/font-combinations/

http://www.typography.com/techniques/



Hiring a Designer



We have quite a few lessons on managing outsourced workers like this one, so I won't cover that here. There are a number of places you could hire designers:



1. www.Elance.com or www.Odesk.com

2. Hiring overseas workers specifically like http://www.onlinejobs.ph/

3. Fiverr

4. Your local college/Craigslist. Local colleges are great because you
can often find a graphic design student who will work for cheap. Some of
the best employees I've had were college students.



I recommend starting out designing them yourself. This will give you the
experience you need to eventually hire a designer. It's probably not
going to work well if you hire a designer and just say 'make me a good
shirt'. Be very specific when giving them directions, and your results
will be much better.



DesignResources Video (Will be Updated)


Click Here To Download Video





How to use the Teespring Designer Click Here To Download Video






How to use Illustrator and Photoshop Click Here to Download Video












Recommended Shirts Brands and Colors



Below is what we recommend for shirts when you go to launch your
campaign. This is the recommended type of shirt and color. I'm including
this info in the design part of this guide so you can plan your
designs accordingly.



Men's Shirt Design:



Hanes Tee: Black, Red, Blue



Hanes Hoodie: Black



Women's Shirt Design:



Hanes Regular Tee: Black

Hanes Womens Fitted: Black, Blue, Purple or Pink

Hanes Hoodie: Black



Mixed Gender Shirt Design:



Hanes Tee: Black, Red, Blue

Hanes Womens Fitted: Black, Red, Blue

Hanes Hoodie: Black

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